Industrial Safety Specialist

Provide hands-on industrial safety support across manufacturing areas that produce acrylic and glass aircraft transparency products for civil and military platforms ensuring employees and contractors follow safe work practices and control high-risk tasks at the point of work.

Inspect work areas coach employees and supervisors verify safety controls support incident investigations and maintain required records for occupational safety programs including IIPP hazard communication LOTO hot work machine guarding PPE respiratory protection forklift/mobile equipment ergonomics and emergency readiness.

Help translate California local federal aerospace customer and site-specific EH&S requirements into practical daily behaviors for vertically integrated acrylic casting/forming solvent bonding coatings machining optical finishing glass processing and maintenance activities.

1. Daily Safety Field Execution

• Conduct planned and unplanned safety inspections across acrylic casting forming bonding coating machining glass fabrication maintenance warehousing laboratory and utility areas.
• Identify unsafe conditions and behaviors; coach employees and supervisors in real time; document findings; assign corrective actions; and verify closure.
• Participate in daily tier meetings shift start-ups Gemba walks area audits and pre-job briefs to reinforce safety expectations and hazard awareness.
• Exercise stop-work authority and immediately escalate imminent danger uncontrolled chemical hazards serious machine-guarding deficiencies or life-safety concerns.

2. California Local and Federal Compliance Support

• Support implementation of Cal/OSHA Title 8 and OSHA general industry requirements including IIPP LOTO machine guarding hazard communication PPE respiratory protection hearing conservation powered industrial trucks fall prevention emergency action/fire prevention and ergonomic controls.
• Maintain inspection logs training records safety observations incident files corrective-action evidence equipment checklists and other records required for agency or customer audit readiness.
• Assist with agency inspection preparation and corrective-action follow-up involving Cal/OSHA Orange County Health Care Agency CUPA Orange County Fire Authority City of Garden Grove authorities South Coast AQMD DTSC EPA or wastewater/stormwater stakeholders when safety controls overlap with hazardous materials or process changes.
• Perform field checks for chemical storage secondary containment labeling emergency equipment eyewash/showers flammable cabinets compressed gas cylinders waste staging interfaces and spill response readiness.

3. High-Risk Work and Manufacturing Process Controls

• Verify LOTO planning and execution for machines autoclaves ovens presses mixers tanks conveyors CNC equipment dust collectors pumps and utility equipment.
• Support hot work elevated work confined-space-adjacent activities tank work contractor work crane/hoist lifts maintenance shutdowns and other non-routine tasks through permit review and field verification.
• Inspect machine guarding interlocks emergency stops pinch-point protection cutting/grinding controls guards on rotating equipment and barricading around temporary hazards.
• Observe handling of large transparencies glass sheets molds fixtures sharp edges heavy carts vacuum lifts and ergonomic risk points; recommend practical improvements.

4. Acrylic MMA Solvent Coating and Glass Safety Support

• Perform safety walkdowns in areas using methyl methacrylate (MMA) monomers resins flammable solvents adhesives coatings primers cleaning agents and other hazardous materials.
• Check chemical-container labeling SDS availability compatible storage grounding/bonding where applicable ventilation use PPE selection spill kit availability and employee knowledge of hazards.
• Support industrial hygiene monitoring activities for MMA VOCs coating constituents dust respirable crystalline silica/glass particulates where applicable noise heat and other exposures.
• Promote process safeguards for polymerization control thermal processes flammable vapor management tank and drum handling cleanroom/controlled finishing areas and contamination-sensitive aerospace production zones.

5. Training Communication and Employee Engagement

• Deliver or support safety orientations toolbox talks job-specific refreshers safety alerts near-miss learning briefs and multilingual/visual communications as needed.
• Coach employees on hazard recognition PPE use SDS access chemical handling emergency reporting stop-work authority pre-task planning and safe maintenance interfaces.
• Collect employee safety concerns help prioritize corrective actions and encourage reporting of hazards and near misses without fear of reprisal.
• Support safety committees emergency response drills evacuation exercises spill-response exercises ergonomic events and focused risk-reduction campaigns.

6. Incident Response and Corrective Action

• Respond promptly to injuries near misses property damage chemical exposure concerns spills with employee exposure potential fire/life-safety concerns and unsafe-condition reports.
• Secure facts through interviews photographs scene observations equipment status training records and work instructions; support root-cause analysis led by the Manager/OHS or EH&S leadership.
• Track assigned corrective and preventive actions through completion; verify effectiveness in the field and escalate overdue or ineffective actions.
• Assist with OSHA/Cal OSHA recordkeeping inputs first-aid case documentation return-to-work observations and corrective-action communication to affected teams.

7. Aerospace & Defense Audit and Operational Continuity Support

• Ensure safety activities reinforce aerospace operating discipline including documented verification change control contamination/FOD awareness controlled access customer property protection and special process readiness.
• Support customer insurance AS9100/NADCAP-style and internal audits by maintaining clean records and demonstrating effective shop-floor safety controls.
• Coordinate with quality engineering and security when safety work occurs in restricted customer-specific military program controlled-processing or special-process areas.
• Recognize that EH&S events can disrupt critical civil and defense supply commitments and therefore treat safety control failures as operational risks not only compliance gaps.

• High school diploma or GED required; associate degree technical certificate or equivalent coursework in occupational safety industrial hygiene manufacturing engineering technology chemistry or related field preferred for entry into the role.
• 3 years of experience in industrial safety manufacturing operations maintenance quality aerospace manufacturing chemical processing plastics glass coatings machining or similarly complex production environments.
• Working knowledge of core safety programs including IIPP hazard recognition LOTO machine guarding HazCom/GHS PPE respiratory protection basics emergency action/fire prevention powered industrial trucks fall prevention ergonomics and incident reporting.
• Ability to perform shop-floor inspections document findings clearly coach employees respectfully and follow corrective actions through closure.
• Comfortable working around manufacturing chemicals flammables solvents resins coatings ovens autoclaves furnaces CNC machines glass processing maintenance work and mobile equipment.
• Ability to read and understand SDSs safety procedures work instructions equipment checklists training materials and regulatory/program requirements.
• Basic computer skills including Microsoft Office safety management systems inspection applications training systems or corrective-action databases.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with hourly employees supervisors engineers maintenance technicians contractors and EH&S professionals.
• Must be a U.S. Person per ITAR regulations to comply with export compliance requirements.

• Bachelors degree in occupational safety industrial hygiene environmental health engineering technology manufacturing chemistry or related field.
• OSHA 30-Hour General Industry Cal/OSHA training ASP GSP OHST CHST STS HAZWOPER forklift trainer first aid/CPR/AED or equivalent safety credentials.
• Experience in aerospace transparency manufacturing PMMA/MMA acrylic casting or forming laminated glass optical coatings cleanroom/controlled finishing autoclaves ovens furnaces CNC machining or precision assembly.
• Experience supporting industrial hygiene monitoring respirator fit testing noise dosimetry heat-stress assessments ergonomic evaluations or chemical exposure-control programs.
• Familiarity with AS9100 NADCAP audit expectations FAA/DoD prime contractor environments customer-flow-down requirements and disciplined change-control cultures.
• Experience supporting South Coast AQMD Orange County Health Care Agency CUPA/CERS Orange County Fire Authority Cal/OSHA DTSC EPA or other California regulatory inspections or corrective actions.
• Bilingual English/Spanish capability or demonstrated success communicating safety expectations with a multilingual manufacturing workforce.
• Experience using lean manufacturing 5S visual management layered process audits behavior-based safety observations or serious injury/fatality prevention tools.

Salary Range: $96466.00 -$120583.00